[aclug-L] Re: FW: , Please help save SaturdaySale computer sale

[jlweaver <jlweaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You keep complaining about the unsolicited email from Saturday Sale.  Don't 
forget
you had to ask to be put on the list.  You probably did it to save $1.00 on the
admission to the show.  Quit your bitchin.
----------------------- jlw

Chris Owen wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, James O. Harms wrote:
>
> > > > Chris Owen wrote:
> > >
> > > > > They would also be better off if they didn't spam for their Saturday
> > > sale.
> > > > > Might go a long way towards convincing me they were a "legimate
> > > business".
> > > > > YMMV.
> > >
> > > > I don't consider their notices as spam.  If you find it objectionable 
> > > > you
> > > can
> > > > ask that your name be removed.  Simple solution..........
>
> It isn't that simple.  I shouldn't have to ask them to be removed, I
> should have to ask them to add me.  Our customers currently receive over
> 500,000 pieces of unsolicited crap each day.  I personally get between
> 300-400 a day.  At those sort of levels your email becomes unsuable.
>
> I spend 30-60 minutes a day doing nothing other than updating our local
> spam filters.  It is an annoying, frustrating waste of time that shouldn't
> be as necessary as it is.
>
> Sending unsolicited email is just plain bad business and if they want to
> make a case that they are a "legitimate business" sending out spam is not
> helping their case.
>
> Chris
>
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